Happy Birthday Jackie Chan!

One thing I love about China is the randomness that can happen. Wednesday afternoon I walk past my assistant dean's office and stop to talk for a few minutes - just checking in on how life is and another foreign teacher shows up "Just the two I needed to see."

A few days later, I'm waiting to be filmed for Jackie Chan's birthday.


Ryan, another independent foreign teacher from England, had a previous student who now works for CCTV. (CCTV is like CNN/FOX/ABC all together. It's THE news network in China. They cover everything and have at least 9 Channels. CCTV1, CCTV2, CCTV3...)

Jackie Chan is very famous in China for his success in acting (and being Chinese) and owns a franchise of movie theaters across China. On his birthday (April 7th), they're going to show a clip of people wishing him happy birthday from all over the world... being foreigners teaching at a Foreign Language School, we're from all over the world. The man above is Roberto from Italy. The girls below are Russian students studying Chinese.


Sometimes I'm not sure how I end up where I am. I feel way to blessed and slightly confused as to what's really going on. I thought it was a "Happy Birthday" but later they told us to encourage his "work with give food to poor children and not kill animals (wildlife preservation)."

Another new teacher Doug came so they put the two Americans together on a couch to encourage him with the poor and helpless (Book Based) and to say the only thing we could say left...

Happy Birthday Jackie Chan!

... when in China...